Creating a headless Chrome instance in Python
Any reason you haven't considered Selenium with the Chrome Driver?
This question is 5 years old now and at the time it was a big challenge to run a headless chrome using python, but the good news is:
Starting from version 59, released in June 2017, Chrome comes with a headless driver, meaning we can use it in a non-graphical server environment and run tests without having pages visually rendered etc which saves a lot of time and memory for testing or scraping. Setting Selenium for that is very easy:
(I assume that you have installed selenium and chrome driver):
from selenium import webdriver#set a headless browseroptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions()options.add_argument('headless')browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)and now your chrome will run headlessly, if you take out options from the last line, it will show you the browser.